Q. How can you say that the Heart is on the right when anatomists find it on the left?
A. It is not denied that the physical organ is on the left; quite correct. But the Heart of which I speak is on the right only. It is my experience. No authority is required.
Still you can find confirmation in the Sita Upanishad. There is a mantra in the latter saying so.
[Talk 4] The whole cosmos is combined in one pinhole in the Heart.
[Talk 263] A tiny hole in the Heart remains always closed and is opened by vichara (investigation into the Self).
The result is ‘I-I’ consciousness, the same as samadhi.
A. It is not denied that the physical organ is on the left; quite correct. But the Heart of which I speak is on the right only. It is my experience. No authority is required.
Still you can find confirmation in the Sita Upanishad. There is a mantra in the latter saying so.
[Talk 4] The whole cosmos is combined in one pinhole in the Heart.
[Talk 263] A tiny hole in the Heart remains always closed and is opened by vichara (investigation into the Self).
The result is ‘I-I’ consciousness, the same as samadhi.
Q. How can the all-immanent God reside in the Heart?
A. Do we not reside in one place? Do you not say you are in your body? Similarly, God is said to reside in the Heart.
The Heart is not a place. Some name is mentioned for the place of God because we think we are in the body.
This kind of instruction is meant for those who can appreciate only relative knowledge.
Being immanent everywhere, there is no place for God.
Because we think we are in the body, we also believe that we are born.
However, we do not think of the body, of God, or of method of realization in our deep slumber.
Yet in our waking state, we hold on to the body and think we are in it.
Paramatma is that from which the body is born, in which it lives and into which it resolves. We however think that we reside within the body. Hence such instruction is given. The instruction means: ‘Look Within’. [Talk 269]
- Conscious Immortality
A. Do we not reside in one place? Do you not say you are in your body? Similarly, God is said to reside in the Heart.
The Heart is not a place. Some name is mentioned for the place of God because we think we are in the body.
This kind of instruction is meant for those who can appreciate only relative knowledge.
Being immanent everywhere, there is no place for God.
Because we think we are in the body, we also believe that we are born.
However, we do not think of the body, of God, or of method of realization in our deep slumber.
Yet in our waking state, we hold on to the body and think we are in it.
Paramatma is that from which the body is born, in which it lives and into which it resolves. We however think that we reside within the body. Hence such instruction is given. The instruction means: ‘Look Within’. [Talk 269]
- Conscious Immortality
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